It looks like this year’s autumn is going to be a stunner for colour. I look forward to it, and have had a mooch round the garden this week to find some interesting early autumn foliage. Here are my #SixOnSaturday.

Almost time to say goodbye to hosta. We have not had any frost yet, so although hostas look a little battered, they are beautifully green, lush and rather summery.

A large, 3m cotinus has taken on its wonderful autumnal red-wine colour. A lovely draw for the eye in a flower border that is now mostly green.

Also trying to keep summer going just a bit, my fig tres are trying to ripen up a few more fruit. I fear it really is way too late and they will have to be taken off soon.

Cotoneaster are looking wonderful, full of ripe fruit. I don’t think it has been cold enough for blackbirds to start harvesting this lot.

Despite an unusually warm summer, I had not had much luck with dahlia flowers this year. This plant has lovely leaf colour but is only just putting out buds now. I wonder if any late flowers will emerge?

Finally this week, here are some wonderful seed heads from a yellow-flowering clematis. Soon, little garden birds will be stealing these to make cosy winter roosting pockets.

I hope you enjoyed an autumn #SixOnSaturday. As the nights grow darker, I’m not much looking forward to the grey cold that seems to be fast approaching…..time for us all to chin-up and keep exploring the garden.

Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, it’s a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot